Vietnam Full Disclosure ~ Honest Commemoration of US War in Vietnam

Peace & Planet News Issue #2, Summer 2020, now online

The entire 24-page issue of PPN is now available online. Print, view, and share the PDF of Issue #2.

Podcast: “I wanted to forget about it” – Mike Tork, Vietnam Veteran

Mike Tork joined the Navy before turning 18 and served in Vietnam with the Mobile Riverine Force (1966-1967).

‘America Told Us to Get Over It’: Black Vietnam Veterans Hail Spike Lee film

“Da 5 Bloods” highlights the experience of veterans who fought for their country only to be treated as second-class citizens.

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“An Other War Memorial” asks “How do nations remember wars?”

Vietnamese writer Viet Thanh Nguyen (who we quote for this website’s tagline) has created, along with his students, a new website of peoples’ memories of the war.

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50th Commemoration of Gibbs-Green Virtual Town Hall

Watch Jackson State University’s Margaret Walker Center and the Gibbs-Green 50th Commemoration Commission’s discussion, held via Zoom, on May 14th.

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Podcast: “Based on nothing but a stack of lies” – Greg Laxer

“I wanted to show that an actual active duty GI in 1968 could do this, could take a very public stance against the war,” shares Vietnam War GI resister.

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Toward an honest commemoration of the American War in Vietnam

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May 21, 2020

“An Other War Memorial” asks “How do nations remember wars?”

Vietnamese writer Viet Thanh Nguyen (who we quote for this website's tagline) has created, along with his students, a new website of peoples' memories of the wa...

May 18, 2020

50th Commemoration of Gibbs-Green Virtual Town Hall

Watch Jackson State University's Margaret Walker Center and the Gibbs-Green 50th Commemoration Commission's discussion, held via Zoom, on May 14th....

May 14, 2020

Podcast: “Based on nothing but a stack of lies” – Greg Laxer

"I wanted to show that an actual active duty GI in 1968 could do this, could take a very public stance against the war," shares Vietnam War GI resister....

May 13, 2020

Remembering the Jackson State Tragedy

The violence 50 years ago wasn’t caused by anti-war student protest; it was another chapter in the long history of state violence against African Americans....

May 13, 2020

Jackson State Killings 50 Years Ago: A Tragedy Widely Forgotten

"We had had several nights of protests ... every campus in this country was in an uproar about the war in Vietnam."...

May 13, 2020

A journey of remembrance: Vietnam Women’s Memorial sculpture

Glenna Goodacre included the figures of a wounded soldier being cradled by a nurse because those were the women who went to Vietnam. She died on April 13....

May 13, 2020

Ralph McGehee, CIA officer turned critic, dies of coronavirus

McGehee became disillusioned during the Vietnam War and emerged as a prominent critic of the agency after publishing the memoir “Deadly Deceits."...

The Full Disclosure campaign is a Veterans For Peace effort to speak truth to power and keep alive the antiwar perspective on the American war in Viet Nam — with a series of 50th anniversary events now occurring. It represents a clear alternative to the Pentagon’s current efforts to sanitize and mythologize the Vietnam war and to thereby legitimize further unnecessary and destructive wars.

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50 Years of GI Resistance, In and Out of Uniform

2019 is the year that we acknowledge and honor the courage, sacrifice, and moral strength of those who resisted.

Original Podcasts

Produced by Courage to Resist in collaboration with the Vietnam Full Disclosure effort of Veterans For Peace.

On the Burns/Novick PBS Documentary

Critical responses to the 10-part PBS series by Ken Burns, The Vietnam War (2018)

Philip Jones Griffith's Viet Nam

Highly recommended photo exhibit available to local community arts centers, galleries and schools.

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“All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War

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28-page Full Disclosure – Truth About America’s War in Vietnam Vol. 2

August 20, 2017

The paper is especially important in relation to the upcoming Burns/Novick documentary about the Vietnam War, which will not present the war as the massive U.S. crime based on lies and betrayals that it was. This paper clearly, definitively and very articulately,...

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September 18, 2016

A second edition of LETTERS TO THE WALL is now available at a 30% discount price. This edition includes two added features — an authors’ index and a reference index for names on The Wall that letter writers addressed. This book is made up of 187 or so letters written...

Paying The Price For Peace: The Story of S. Brian Willson

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Paying the Price… Vietnam Veteran S. Brian Willson paid the price for peace by nearly being killed by a military train during a non-violent protest. Since then, he has not stopped calling attention to the US government’s defiance of international law through waging...

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